Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on An Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande

BATB score: 8.5/10 🩺🩻👩‍⚕️

*Disclaimer* In another life, I do wish to be a surgeon. I do have an unfair favoritism towards doctor/surgeon related books.

Best to: Atul Gawande is exceptionally talented in being a surgeon, an author, and a researcher; living proof that you can be and you can nail so many things in one lifetime

Best as: so many interesting topics from mysterious illnesses, to when doctors go wild, to real life cases - literally a day in a life of Atul Gawande in the ER/OR

Best for: have you ever wonder about the life of a surgeon? if you are a surgeon would you be bias? Would you diagnose based on gut feelings? And if you fail, would you be able to move on?

BATB lingering thought: Atul Gawande’s writings is so humble.

Best quotes: “The most important way in which innate factors play a role may be in one’s willingness to engage in sustained training. Top performers dislike practicing just as much as others do. That’s why athletes and musicians usually quit practicing when they retire. But more than others, they have the will to keep at it anyways.”

“It is one thing to be aware of one’s limitations. It is another to be plagued by self-doubt.”

“But, as the field grows ever more complex and technological, the real task isn’t to banish paternalism; the real task is to preserve kindness.”

“No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.”